Phylicia thought life was passing her by, but maybe this was love’s plan all along. . .

At twenty-nine, Phylicia Chandler put her life on hold to care for her dying mother with her sisters, Joanna and Britt. Now Mom is gone and their father stuns them all by running off with a woman young enough to be their sister. Life is moving forward all around her, but Phylicia feels stuck—until her father’s protégé, Quinn Mitchell, presents the sisters with an intriguing business opportunity to purchase a trio of cottages just outside of Langhorne, Missouri. Joanna and Britt are convinced the three of them should launch a vacation rental venture, but Phylicia remains skeptical.

To complicate matters, Quinn soon finds himself falling hard for Phylicia. But how can he pursue this beautiful, talented woman twelve years his junior when she’s still reeling over her father’s hasty engagement to a younger woman? Quinn is determined to give Phylicia her happily-ever-after. But first, he must help her come to terms with her discovery of long-held family secrets and persuade her that true love can transcend their differences.

EXCERPT:

“What
about your house, Dad?” Phee picked up the phone and spoke directly
into it, as if that might change his mind. “Why would you sell this
house? What will you do when you come back?”

He
cleared his throat loudly. “You girls are
sitting down?”

They
exchanged glances again, and Britt slid back into her chair.

“Dad?
What’s this all about? When are
you coming back?” Phee was starting to get a bad feeling about
this. She glanced over to the hutch where a framed photograph of Mom
and Dad perched—a picture from happier days, before cancer
devastated all their lives.

Dad’s
sigh filled the room. “I’m not sure I’ll be
coming back, girls. Not to stay. And even if I did, I don’t want to
rattle around in that house. There are too many memories there. Too
much history.”

“Exactly.
Our
history.” Joanna put her hands on her hips, looking defiant. Except
for the tears brimming in her eyes.

DEBORAH RANEY dreamed of writing a book since the summer she read Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books and discovered that a Kansas farm girl could, indeed, grow up to be a writer. Her 30-plus books have garnered multiple industry awards including the RITA® Award, HOLT Medallion, National Readers' Choice Award, Carol Award, and have three times been Christy Award finalists. Her first novel, A Vow to Cherish, shed light on the ravages of Alzheimer's disease and inspired the highly acclaimed World Wide Pictures film of the same title. A Vow to Cherish continues to be a tool for Alzheimer's families and caregivers. Deborah is on faculty for several national writers' conferences and serves on the executive board of the 2600-member American Christian Fiction Writers organization. She and her husband, Ken Raney, traded small-town life in Kansas—the setting of many of Deb's novels—for life in the city of Wichita. They often travel to teach at writers conferences across the country and to visit their four children and a growing brood of grandchildren who all live much too far away.CONNECT WITH DEB: website | Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | Instagram

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